This whole ordeal is compoundly retarded because the position of the fake camera in the hoax video points toward black plastic.... Unless it's the new Alien "See through solid matter Camera" it wouldn't serve much point even if this video were legitimate.

TheGoodFight1984

There is one digibox company that IS building mics into their products - there's a vid somewhere of an R&D guy who works for the company doing a quick piece on it - can't remember either the name of the guy or the company.. maybe someone else will remember that. The guy was stood outside the company building.

"The magnetic field generated by that transformer would scramble the camera very quickly. I agree with you Cam….this has hoax written all over it."

"COMCAST CONVERTER BOXES DO NOT HAVE A CAMERA I OPENED IT MYSELF. it does however have the infrared reader…. which looks like a security camera globe"

"This looks like a hoax to me."

"I agree, it looks like a hoax."

"No need, it’s not a camera or a mic. The mic is a transformer and there’d be no point in having a camera so close to the transformer because the magnetic field from the transformer would screw it up. I wouldn’t be surprised if some company did start spying on us, but this is just a hoax."

"Someone could easily do something like this to trick Infowars or Alex Jones into talking about it and then reveal the hoax to make them look bad."

"pfft.. You can buy them with a surveillance camera built-in for home security. There’s no conspiracy. infowars is losing cred again." ---- What's this guy talking about? Converter box for home security? huh?

"Me again, i’ve done a little more search and are finding it difficult to find a HDTV tuner with a camera avertised… I just wanted to do a bit of a search before I took this article for face value and i’m sure I saw one when I did a search early today? Ps: Not everyone critical of an infowars article is a dis-info operative.. maybe just a poor research hacks"

you know.. it should speak to our credit that you guys researched and DE-BUNKED it on a "conspiracy theory" forum. if we were all crazy, tin-foil hat wearing lunatics.. we'd be jumping all over this without actually trying to seek out any truth. that's what i love about this forum.. it's dedicated to TRUTH, even if the outcome sometimes goes AGAINST what we think to be happening.

good job those of you who really looked into this.

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Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. - 1 John 2:15

This is bad publicity for infowars.com. Also the whole story about Mississippi banning confiscation of guns with a bill during martial law is only HALF the story. They still left loopholes as well as allowing them to TURN OFF all your utilities and CONFISCATE your property. Both were written by a Watson, he needs to double check his facts. I've never not been able to verify stories that is posted up on Infowars until the last week, what is going on?

Is it possible that the plastic blocking the "camera" is actually translucent? Therefore, it could potentially watch you? Is it 100% confirmed that this model doesn't look like this on the inside? The first video at the top was made before the video in the prisonplanet article. Just trying to confirm everything.

Is it 100% confirmed that this model doesn't look like this on the inside?

Technically, No, but the one our programmer opened at his house was the exact make and model. He didn't compare schematics to the one in the video.... so no... we don't know 100%. He will tell you 99.5%

No, it's solid.Technically, No, but the one our programmer opened at his house was the exact make and model. He didn't compare schematics to the one in the video.... so no... we don't know 100%. He will tell you 99.5%

How would they use a camera INSIDE THE CONVERTER BOX to monitor you anyway? It is not hooked up to cable where it could send images back to somewhere. The converter box recieves a radio signal from the air and converts it to an analog signal the older tvs can display.

I can see how this could happen with cable boxes or computer cameras hooked up to the internet, but not digital tv converter boxes.

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Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness --For theirs is the kingdom of heaven

I know everyone is upset about this here, but it does seem that this is a reality maybe in some other boxes, I have the US patent PDFs enclosed which shows that a digital set top box has been designed 11 years ago equipped with a tracking camera. I'm trying to upload one and its only 84Kb and the site says that the upload folder is full, where should I put it?

I also mentioned on the other topic that from the video the little "camera" appeared to be attached to the power transformer. That would do wonders for its performance. Fortunately some of us do work with electronic components so this hoax was easy to spot.

And today about 1/3 of the US stations went ahead and changed to digital. So far according to the tech and TV engineering blogs I've read there have been few problems and little in the way of support calls. Like I suspected the transition will be a "tempest in a teapot." And I bet the stations that were going to wait until June will ask the FCC if they can have waivers to make the transition earlier.

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Lucian Solaris

you guys don't realize that a camera that uses non-visible light doesn't need to be behind a 'clear' panel (i use quotes as what is clear or opaque depends on the material and wavelength), all that is needed is to have the camera detect a wavelength of light (one out of our visible spectrum) that passes through the plastic as white light passes through glass. Solid materials absorb certain wavelengths of light while letting others pass through. This is why your house's walls don't let in visible light but radio 'light' (e.m. radiation and 'light' are the same thing) passes through freely!

How would they use a camera INSIDE THE CONVERTER BOX to monitor you anyway? It is not hooked up to cable where it could send images back to somewhere. The converter box recieves a radio signal from the air and converts it to an analog signal the older tvs can display.